This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howard, Asher, Dale, Carter, Lee, Morgan, Markley, Fisher, Bowling Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/plB.2ACI/3505 Message Board Post: H. B. HOWARD Funeral services for H. B. Howard, 96, of Palacios, were held Sept. 20, 2005 at Palacios Funeral Home Chapel. Interment was at Midfield Cemetery. Mr. Howard was born Feb. 24, 1909 in Goose Rock, Clay Co., KY to the late Jesse and Elizabeth Asher Howard. He died Sept. 17, 2005 at his residence. He was a resident of Palacios the past 10 years, a former resident of Point Comfort, and Mexia, TX, and was a member of the Point Comfort Assembly Of God Church. He was the owner and operator of the Howard Oil Company in Mexia, TX. He is survived by daughter-in-law Gerry Howard of Palacios; brothers E. C. Howard of Okmulgee, OK and Caleb Howard of Kansas City, MO; grandchildren Thomas Dale, Stephen Lynn, Randall Dale, and Charles Alfred Howard, Teresa Carter, Nancy Lee and Patricia Howard; 14 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 75 years Hazel Howard in October 2003; sons Kenneth Dale and Charles Alfred Howard; sisters Ophie Morgan, Alice Markley, Florence Fisher, and Laura Bowling; and brothers: Israel, John, Lee, and Daw William Howard. Pallbearers were Thomas Dale, Randall, and Kenneth Howard, David Roberts, Jonathan Lee, and Charles Alfred Howard, Jr. Memorials may be made to the First Assembly of God Church of Point Comfort, TX. Arrangements with Palacios Funeral Home. Palacios Beacon Matagorda County, Texas ?September 21, 2005